Michele Molnar reports on whether "personalized learning" is an educational imperative, a marketing strategy for an ed-tech product, or both in "'Red Flags' to Look for When Evaluating Personalized Learning Products," 10.18.16. http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/10/19/red-flags-to-look-for-when-evaluating.html?cmp=eml.enl.eu-news2&PageSpeed=noscript
Cris Rowan's Fact Sheet contains over 300 referenced research papers on technology's effects on children. http://www.zonein.ca/zoneinworkshop/fact-sheet/zonein-fact-sheet/
See Tech Talks for Families to help balance tech use with healthy activities. http://www.zoneinproducts.com/tech-talk-families-learn-more.html
Katie Singer's An Electronic Silent Spring, Rudolf Steiner Books, 2014. Reports on regulations and peer-reviewed studies about health and environmental impacts of exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Www.electronicsilentspring.com posts a monthly newsletter.
www.ehtrust.org Lists schools that have eliminated Wi-Fi; posts videos about cell phone radiation's effects on fertility. http://ehtrust.org/policy/international-policy-actions-on-wireless/
Environmental Health Trust also posts http://ehtrust.org/key-issues/cell-phoneswireless/wifi-in-schools/
http://www.parentsforsafetechnology.org/five-reasons-to-turn-off-the-wireless-.html
http://www.parentsforsafetechnology.org/five-steps-to-safe-tech.html
Peer-reviewed studies about health and environmental effects of EMR exposure. www.bioinitiative.org
Peer-reviewed studies about health effects of EMR exposure, posted by the School of Public Health at UC/Berkeley. www.saferemr.com
A tech expert on decreasing chances of being tracked: http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2012/08/10/158505688/simple-ways-to-avoid-being-hacked
"Questions we should be asking about 'Future Ready' schools," https://wrenchinthegears.com/2016/10/03/personalization-or-surveillance-what-school-redesign-really-means/
A writer, teacher and international speaker, Katie Singer's most recent book is An Electronic Silent Spring (Rudolf Steiner Books, 2014). She has worked on public policy with the Electromagnetic Radiation Policy Institute since 2009. From 1983-89, Singer taught at South Boston High, the school that became famous with court-ordered desegregation. Anthologies of her students' autobiographical stories and photographs were used as texts for Reading, Writing and ESL classes throughout the Boston Public Schools. www.electronicsilentspring.com
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We, the undersigned, join Katie Singer and the Electromagnetic Radiation Policy Institute in calling on school communities to use technology as safely as possible. Please note: affiliations are for informational purposes only.
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